The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1887-01-07
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Money Recovered.
Kansas CRY, No. Doc. D.-Thc center
al interest IN the great express robbery
has once more shifted 20 this city. Ia al
thut has been published heretofore on The
casc. there seems 10 have been nothing
definite given to the public as 70 foiher
ingham's guilt or innocence. According
10 the confessions Of both Wittrock and
Cook Fothcringham was party 20 the
great conspiracy, and was 70 nave r.
ccivcd siO.OD for the part he played
When Bob Pinkerton left Ieaverworths
al six o'clock yesterday morning h had
recovered Ss,.0 Of the money stolen from.
the Adams Express Company. lie was
not through. however. Accompanied bv
his three operatives and Wittrock and The
lattcr's mother he came 10 this city. The
marty did not come up town. hut re-
NAMED az the Union depot. leaving the
impression that they were waiting fora
train. When the Missouri Pacific train
from st. Louis pulled In two men go' w.
one OF whom was Detective McGinn, aud
the other Oscar Cook, the man arrested Va
this city Saturday for complicitv N ne
express. Detective NcGinn accompanied Pm
Oscar Cook and Mr.. J. II. Butler, agent Of
Inc Adams cxprcss. entered a carriage,
and a half past nine stopped Attic resi-
dercc OF John Cox. Oscar Cooks fa'hrr-in
law. and with whom Wittrock hal boarded
part OF the time while In this city.
The house is a modest dwelling on
Commercial street. near the distiiiery
The detective. dispensing with forma'itiesr
Owed under the house and soon reappcar-
Cd with half-dozcn beer bottles. In which
| were slowed lot Of crisp New YORK
| notes. Then they recntered the carriage
| and were drives 10 the residence 81 henry
I! Cook. the father OF the man under arrest
| They did not enter AZ once put
leaving the hack at the door walked
| 10 = frame house across the street.
under which they found some moro beer
bottles. likewise containing lucre Then
they raped AZ the door Of the Cook house
and on being admitted met Jack Cook
| foreman Of the distiliery coopershop. anu
| n brother OF Oscar Cook. who was there
hv appo,utment Detective Mct;inn IN
formed Cook that he would be pleased 70
have that <1.lJO Wittrock had given MN
Cook. finding himself caught weakened
and. going 70 the cooper-shop. brought
back SSH. which he had sccrcted IN the
coopcr-shcd. This was all that renamed
Of his share OF the doodle. the oAianoe
having been spent by Cook ~ bringing ms
mother and sister from Louisville and
furnishing a house for them. After tell
inc him that he would be given time 70 re
turn the rest. which Cook promises 70 90
nv morigaging his property in Louisville,
the detective drove 70 the city and re-
ported 10 his chief.
The amount recovered yesterday iSknoNn
only 10 the detectives. as Mr. finker-
ton refused to say anything about y That
IL Is quite large. however. IS certain Inc
amount recovered az Lcavcnworth. 60
nm. together with that received rom
Hasght in Nashville. $1,000, and me y -"
given IN by Weaver In Chicago makes
he whole sum recovered in these places
s3q.5n As the amount Of cash stolen
was ssi.0O. ss.joo remains 70 be ac-
counted for The detectives think that
| com parafivcly little was spent by the rop-
hers. and say they viii get II all. II =
! thought the amount found under the two
hon ses in the East bottoms must approx
. |, mate $1,000 This is the more probable IN
asmuch a. when q search was made az the
! time OF Cook arrest no money was tould
. His share must have been considerable
from his intimacy with Wi'trocK
and the fact that nc was 'aken
into the lattcr's confidence to the
extent Of being employed 20 mail Tho Jim
| Cummings letters The money found IN
, der cox's house, with whom Cook board
7; "a. probably Appropriated $1,000 less
| what Cook had spent. as that was about
. The amount each Of the men received.
This. less fi.isO taken from Jack Cook ana
I TIC amount found under the second house
+ leaves many thousand dollars vet 70 be ac-
4 counted for. Wittrock aud Cook
. while in this city. spent money
, lavishly What they could NJ
spend they gave away. Detective
2 Pinkcrton says that at least dozen men y
Q the East bottoms. acquaintance OF Cook
4 .xttx VT
!. dollars 70 one thousand dollars. some
q received Il in the shape Of loans, while 4 4
r few took il with knowledge Of where Y
9 came from. Pinkcrton's men spent 'ne
y afternoon and night In looking up these
:. Mr.. Pinkcrton said that he knew w
> names Of all the parties. and that nnies,
n they came up with the money he wouu
u arrcst them Those who had received th'
. money as a loan would not be molesten
q but those who hGd taken Y with RuhN
knowledge would not be allowed 70 ~"
% promise.
0, When whittrock was writing impor'an
8 letters TO the press there were sn .' NV,
ID thought him n shrewd fellow. those ~
/; ounintcd with the methods employed Y
IN detectives In following up clcws give nv
IS credit for extraordinary stupidity we
" his brief career ~ train-robbtr cnn.'
D. with his arrest scarcely anypau
n
doubted that he would confess. ina
Il. was precisely what he din n
40 when he found that sunclru
IA evidence had been obtained 70 COW,
h, him. he made clean breast Of the wno.
Il AFFAIR. when Mrs. wittrock's letter ~ q
an ing that some Of the money was =. ~
he house. was received AZ Chicago, finke,. y
ng and his operatives had already started Y
Al, T.eaycnworth with wittrock- Thc Az 7,
he teur outlaw did something more
..peachcd- on Fothcringham HIS siors
In "a the effect that Fothernghain was " n
a. $1,000 for the part he played IN the nas IT,,
II was thought at first that the ropDs'
NJ had been planned 80 carefully 'ha' ~
IN picicn would be diverted from ne cxp'e,
Nv messenger. In order. as he though, :
,cr still further deceive the officials 'ne n,'
I'd letter was written before the ropo.l
70 which was planned 10 take place LOU u
n - and was dated October y. me ", 7.
berry not taking place until VI TX \
"A Inc date was changed. the same ie,'c' N I
y. ind uscd. II was the fact that 'h' e. y
NJ ma been changed. and that the oiu ~ 4
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